In 2006, The Poetry Center launched its first annual Poetry Prize for High School Girls in Massachusetts (open to sophomores and juniors); since then, our contest has expanded into the other New ...

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...

Lovely projections by John Boesche on Catalina Niño’s simple but evocative set (rich with suggestions of the waves and rocks of the New England coast that both poets loved) enliven and enlarge ...

This year, Dallas named Mag Gabbert as the city’s second poet laureate. Gabbert will serve two years in the position and follows Dallas’ inaugural poet laureate, Joaquín Zihuatanejo.

Project VOICE founder Sarah Kay will be the keynote speaker at the 2019 BC Women's Summit, which seeks to empower women to realize their potential to rise together and enact change Empowerment is on ...

The poet Jackie Kay introduces and reads some of her best-known poems for children: Brendon Gallacher The poet remembers an imaginary childhood friend. Red running shoes The poet explores her ...

It was such a place of safety for me," she remembers thinking. It was a "core memory" and the first time the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States − the first Latina appointed to the role − ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Mosab Abu Toha was able to escape Gaza, along with his wife and three young children. The award-winning poet talks about parenting in war and the devastation of leaving his family and friends behind.

SANGER, CA, UNITED STATES, October 1, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- An echo of simpler times resonates through the songs, poems, and life of Lucinda Kay Boragno, a multi ...

Then there are poems written in the voice of Baartman herself: a mix of Khoekhoe dialect words and euphonic, often musical, phrasing. This wide-ranging method has, almost necessarily, mixed results.

Project VOICE founder Sarah Kay will be the keynote speaker at the 2019 BC Women's Summit, which seeks to empower women to realize their potential to rise together and enact change Empowerment is on ...